Job 16

1 Then Job answered:

1 约伯回答说：

2 “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

2 “这些话，我听过很多， 你们的安慰无不让人愁烦。

3 Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?

3 你们的空谈无休无止吗？ 是什么惹你们说个不停？

4 I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

4 倘若你我易地而处， 我也能说你们那样的话， 滔滔不绝地攻击你们， 向你们摇头。

5 But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

5 但我会对你们讲鼓励的话， 用劝慰之言减轻你们的痛苦。

6 Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

6 “我若申辩，痛苦不减； 我若缄默，痛苦犹在。

7 Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

7 上帝啊，你无疑使我精疲力竭， 家破人亡，

8 You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

8 你榨干了我， 使我骨瘦如柴， 这成了当面指控我的罪证。

9 His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

9 上帝在愤怒中撕裂我，迫害我， 向我咬牙切齿； 仇敌恶狠狠地盯着我。

10 They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

10 他们嘲笑我， 轻蔑地掴我的脸， 联合起来攻击我。

11 God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

11 上帝把我交给罪人， 把我扔到恶人手中。

12 I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;

12 我本来平顺，祂击垮了我， 祂抓住我的颈项将我摔碎， 把我当祂的箭靶。

13 His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

13 祂的弓箭手四面围住我， 祂毫不留情地刺透我的肾脏， 使我肝胆涂地。

14 He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.

14 祂一次次地击伤我， 像勇士一样扑向我。

15 I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.

15 我将麻衣缝在皮肤上， 把我的荣耀埋在尘土中。

16 My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;

16 我哭得脸颊红肿， 眼皮发黑。

17 yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

17 但我未行残暴之事， 我的祷告纯真。

18 O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.

18 “大地啊！不要掩盖我的血， 不要让我的呼求销声匿迹。

19 Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

19 此时，我的见证人在天上， 我的辩护者在高天上。

20 My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

20 我的朋友讥笑我， 我在上帝面前泪水涌流。

21 Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

21 但愿人与上帝之间有仲裁者， 如同人与人之间。

22 For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

22 因为我的年日不多， 我快要踏上不归路。